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Originally Posted by lumpynose
How do you guys handle ellipses?
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See these 2 topics for extremely detailed discussion:
break/no-break and other spaces
[old thread] non breaking spaces (* and *) automatically removed
I also believe I referenced a Jellby post where he discusses all the ins-and-outs of when to attach ellipses before/after with non-breaking spaces (IIRC there were at least 5 different cases you'll run across).
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Originally Posted by lumpynose
I find the ones provided by the entity/fonts are too closely spaced; it hardly looks like an ellipsis to me.
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... I stick with individual periods with non-breaking spaces between:
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Example of a 4-dot ellipsis. . . .
I work on many books with 4+-dot ellipses, and it was the only consistent way to deal with them in ebooks.
It also is the only way that consistently:
- works across devices/readers/programs
- actually prevents line-breaking
- works on all fonts
And like was already mentioned, using rarer spaces is probably going to get you the blank squares or ? to appear everywhere.